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Consulted

Consulting on demand — until no one demanded it

marketfitSilent Shutdown

Quiet closure with no public announcement · Fatal mistake: Could not aggregate enough supply-side consultants and demand-side clients simultaneously to create a functioning two-sided marketplace.

Founded	2014
Closed	2016
Country	USA
Sector	Marketplace

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Key Events Timeline

2014-01-01

FOUNDING

Consulted founded in the USA to build an on-demand consulting marketplace platform.

2014-06-01

FUNDING

Seed funding received to develop the platform and acquire initial supply and demand-side users.

2015-06-01

PRODUCT LAUNCH

Platform launched publicly but struggled to attract sufficient consultant supply and enterprise clients simultaneously.

2016-06-01

SHUTDOWN

Consulted shuts down after failing to achieve product-market fit in the highly relationship-driven consulting industry.

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Consulted was a US-based SaaS startup launched in 2014 targeting the consulting marketplace as an aggregation platform. The startup received initial funding but failed to achieve product-market fit and closed w...

ithin two years of operations. The fundamental challenge was the fragmented nature of the consulting industry, which proved highly resistant to platform-driven aggregation models. Despite the theoreti

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